Comment by LegitShady
4 years ago
They should be reported to the authorities for attempting to introduce security vulnerabilities into software intentionally. This is not ok.
4 years ago
They should be reported to the authorities for attempting to introduce security vulnerabilities into software intentionally. This is not ok.
What authorities whould that be? The Department of Justice? The same DoJ that is constantly pushing for backdoors to encryption? Good luck with that! The "researchers" just might receive junior agent badges instead.
Maybe it was those very authorities who wanted them there. Lot's of things have gotten patched and the backdoors don't work as well as they used to... gotta get clever.
I'm a PhD student myself. What he did is not okay! We study computer science to do good not to harm.
What these researchers did was clearly and obviously wrong, but is it actually illegal?
It should be reported anyways. This might be only some small part of the malfeasance they're getting up to.
The fact that both of the researchers seem to be of Chinese origin should definitely raise some questions. Not the first time things like this have been tried.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN and certainly not implicit slurs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
this is classic national origin discrimination. racists are coming out.
Id have the same suspicion if they were Russian. Nothing to do with race, everything to do with national affiliation.
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